Originally posted to alt.binaries.old.nl by MeiMei.
Welcome to the
InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource CD-ROM
April 1996
Highlights of the current release:
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Red Hat 3.0.3 (ELF) for Intel with all updates as of 11 April 1996
Red Hat 2.1 for DEC Alpha
Java(tm) Development Kit 1.0 and 1.0.1
Slackware 3.0 (ELF)
Kernel sources up to version 1.2.13 and 1.3.88
Debian 0.93 (a.out)
Preliminary DEC ALPHA/AXP port (Located in "ALPHA/alpha" on Disc 3)
XFree86 3.1.2 (integrated in Debian, RedHat, and Slackware)
Includes new server for Trident TGUI 9440AGi chipset.
XFree86 3.1.2D (Beta)
Raven - A Linux oriented "ezine"
A fully functional demo of Pathfinder. This is a visual source code
browser for C/C++, Tcl and iTcl. It also includes the "Open Desktop
Graphical Frontend" for relational databases.
UNIX Cockpit, an X11 filemanager.
Drivers for SDL's line of Frame-Relay and CSU/DSU products.
A demo of SmartWare PLUS from ANGOSS Software. SmartWare PLUS is a
cross-platform integrated product suite that includes: Relational
Database, Spreadsheet w/Presentation Graphics, WordProcessor, and
Communications. Keys to enable the demo for personal or commercial
use are available from InfoMagic.
A demo of FlagShip, an application generator for Linux, like Clipper
under DOS. A demo of "webkit" a tool for integrating Flagship with a
WWW server. These were made available by Mark Bolzern of Work Group
Solutions.
A demo version of dbman, a dbase system for Linux.
A demo version of "bru". A backup utility for Linux.
GPPLINUX, a demo of an Object Oriented development environment for Linux.
The GPM (Garden Point Modula) Modula-2 and Oberon compilers for Linux.
[Note: All Demos are on Disc 2 in the "demos" directory]
The full Slackware 3.0 source tree.
General Information about the Linux Developer's Resource
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These discs are published every 3-4 months (or so) and include
snapshots of the TSX-11.MIT.EDU and Sunsite.UNC.EDU linux archives.
As with previous editions we have included the complete GNU archive from
prep.ai.mit.edu so as to be in full compliance with the GNU Public
License, a copy of which is provided in the "gnu" directory.
The following are mirrored directly from their home sites:
Red Hat
Debian
Slackware
wine
XFree86
Kernel Sources (from nic.funet.fi)
Networking Code (from ftp.linux.org.uk)
Flagship
GNU sources
JE & JF
and (naturally) sunsite and TSX.
Other packages have been provided to us by their authors.
At H. J. Lu's specific request the "private" subdirectory of the
"GCC" distribution is not included on the CD's.
At the request of the Debian group we have not included the preliminary
version 1.0 distribution which is expected to be replaced by a 1.1 release
just as this CD-set ships.
Marc Ewing of Red Hat Software granted us explicit permission to include
their port for the DEC Alpha. We have included a stripped down
version of this release, even with 6 CD's something has to go ! In
particular we have not included the entire source tree for the Alpha
version, only the kernel sources and some few other packages. Marc
also tells us that a new version of the Alpha port is expected
shortly. The complete source RPMS are included for the 3.0.3 Intel
version.
See the RoadMap at the end of this file for the layout of the 6 CDs.
These discs are mastered in ISO-9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions
to preserve the long mixed case filenames and deeply nested directory
structure. Translation tables are provided in each directory to help
find things under MS-DOS or other systems that do not support the
Rock Ridge extensions. A directory in the root of each CD called
"rr_moved" contains files too deeply nested to be accessable under
the ISO-9660 format. These files will appear in their correct
locations (and the directory "rr_moved" will be empty) on systems
which support Rock Ridge. The "TRANS.TBL" file shows the original
long mixed-case UNIX(tm) filename and the ISO-9660 alias.
A few large packages common to TSX-11 & SuNSITE have been merged and
put into top level directories. This includes the kernel distributions
and XFree86.
Some popular packages have been removed due to copyright
restrictions, these include: Mosaic, Netscape, kermit, getty_ps, xv,
and Chimera. We applogize for the inconvenience. These (and more)
can of course be found on our FTP server, ftp.infomagic.com
(165.113.211.2). The list of restricted packages continues to grow,
we have followed the guidelines in the file "info.for.cdrom.vendors"
found on disc 2.
The following files are included with the permission of their authors:
SCSI HowTo (Drew Eckhardt)
ncftp (Mike Gleason)
The Linux How To documents can be found below the "docs" directory on
disc 1. They are provided in a number of formats. The HowTo material
is also provided in the form of a Microsoft Multimedia Viewer title
(along with the Viewer software) for browsing/searching under
Microsoft Windows. The Viewer supports both hypertext access to all
the HowTo's and full-text search. You may search for single words or
phrases and find all occurrences in any of the documents. It will
present a list of topics in which your search phrase was found as well
as highlighting the text in each topic.
We have provided a setup program for the Viewer software and HowTo
docs, select "File/Run" from the program manager and run
X:\viewer\setup.exe (where X is your CD-ROM drive letter). The viewer
may also be run directly from the CD. From the Program Manager of
Windows, select "File/Run" and type in the following command:
X:\viewer\mviewer2 HowTo.MVB
where "X" is the letter corresponding to your CD-ROM.
Included distributions and their versions are shown below.
Debian 0.93R6
RedHat 3.0.3 for Intel 2.1 for Alpha
Slackware 3.0
In the directory "lininst" on Disc 1, is a Microsoft Windows based
installation utility that will assist you in selecting the correct
boot kernel based on your hardware. It will create the boot & root
diskettes for Slackware within Windows. It also detects your CD
drives and floppy drives. It may be run directly from the CD, or
copied to the hard disk. If for some reason it does not correctly
detect your CD, you may invoke it with the drive letter on the
command line to override the automatic CD detection.
SLACKWARE 3.0 Notes:
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Due to changes in the Slackware setup, the distribution now appears
directly off the root of Disc 1. The installation sets are in the
directory "slakware" to match the expectations of the setup utility.
The directory "slaktest" is used for CD dependant installs as
explained in the Slackware setup screens.
The Boot & Root disks are in the directory "slackwar" to make them
easier to find under DOS (where long file names are not allowed :-).
Please refer to the installation notes in the "slackwar" directory
before proceeding. Contributed software is in the directory
"slackwar/contrib" on disc 1.
The complete source tree is in "slackwar/source" also on Disc 1.
This tree contains a set of scripts to build either the entire tree
of any part of it. These scripts are called SlackBuild.
The boot images are now supplied uncompressed and the root images are
used in their compressed form - If creating the root floppies
manually DO NOT UNCOMPRESS THE IMAGE FILES !
Notes for NewComers
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In the "doc\howto" subdirectory of disc 1, there are a series of
HOWTO documents that provide detailed instructions on how to configure
and install nearly every aspect of Linux. Please refer to these
before starting if you have never done it before ! These documents
are in UNIX(tm) format which means they do not end in CRLF, only LF
and will therefore not print on most DOS systems. You will need to
view them with an editor or word processor (or use the included
Multimedia Viewer software).
For help with installing Slackware, refer to the files in the
"slackwar" directory of Disc 1.
The tools used to create the bootable floppies, for all the
distributions, are in the directory "utils" on disc 1. This
directory also contains a number of partition manipulation utilities
including one called "fips" that can be used to resize DOS partitions
without damaging them. Please read the file "fips.doc" in the
directory "utils\FIPS" on disc 1 before using it.
RoadMap
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disc1/slakware Installation disk sets
disc1/slackwar Boot/Root disk images, readme files,
sources, and contributed software
/slaktest Alternate version of CD dependant install.
disc1/debian Debian 0.93R6 distribution
disc1/docs Assorted Linux documentation
disc1/help Assorted InfoMagic supplied files
referenced in the Quickstart Guide
disc1/utils Utilities to create boot floppies
disc1/lininst Microsoft Windows based Install Disk Builder.
disc1/viewer HowTo's for Microsoft Windows
disc1/wine Windows(tm) Emulator development archive
disc2/ RedHat 2.1 distribution & Demos
disc2/RedHat Distribution sets
|----> RPMS -- binary packages
|----> base -- small filesystem setup archives
|----> instimage -- image used for graphical installs
|----> sets -- symlinks to rpms, divided by series
|----> upgrade -- upgrade script for Red Hat 2.x based systems
disc2/images Boot Images
|----> floppies -- floppy disk images for floppy install
disc2/trees Used during installation
disc2/dosutils Utilities to create boot/root floppies
disc2/Networking Networking archive from ftp.linux.org.uk
disc2/JE Japanese Extensions
disc2/JF Japanese Documentation
disc2/kernel Extra Kernel code from Sunsite
disc3 Sunsite Archive
ALPHA/ software and patches in the ALPHA stage
X11/ clients,servers,etc. for XFree86, Linux's X11
devel/ Linux development tools
distributions/ Complete, easily installed linux distribution
games/ fun ways to waste time
libs/ Special (non libc) linking libraries
search/ various ways to search this archive
system/ Stuff to help run your system
utils/ useful utilities
disc4/gnu GNU archive
disc4/funet Linus's Kernel archive and assorted patches
disc4/Java Java(tm) Development Kit 1.0 & 1.0.1
disc4/sunsite.app Apps from the Sunsite archive
disc5/tsx-11 TSX-11 archive
disc5/XFree86/current Binary Distribution of 3.1.2a
/beta Binary Distribution of 3.1.2d
disc5/sunsite.app/comm Communication apps from sunsite
/demos Demos from sunsite
/graphics Graphics appls from sunsite
/tex TeX and "ntex" from sunsite
disc6/axp Red Hat 2.1 for DEC Alpha
disc6/SRPMS Source Packages for Red Hat 3.0.3 Intel
disc6/demos Commercial demos provided by vendors
disc6/other Additional boot/installation kernels
with Adaptec 2940, NCR, am53c974, and
Iomega zip drive support.
disc6/updates/SRPMS Updated Red Hat 3.0.3 SRPMS files.
